Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Once you choose hope, anything's possible.
- Christopher Reeve
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
- Titus Maccius Plautus
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
- Vincent McNabb
In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Human
Love floods us with hope.
- Jareb Teague
There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
- Edgar Howe
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope mast be expiated by pain.
- Samuel Johnson
Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all.
- Emily Dickinson
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.
- Anne Lamott
The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
- Marian Zimmer Bradley
You've gotta have hope. Without hope life is meaningless. Without hope life is meaning less and less.
- Author Unknown
Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Lord save us all from... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
- Mark Twain
Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.
- George Iles
When hope is hungry, everything feeds it.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.
- Author Unknown
If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.
- Eric Bentley
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
- Thomas Hardy
Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.
- Norman Cousins
Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
- Don Quixote
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
- Samuel Johnson
Hope is the physician of each misery.
- Irish Proverb
Hope deceives more men than cunning does.
- Vauvenargues
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
- Ouida
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
- Eric Hoffer
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
- Pearl S. Buck
Hope is but the dream of those who wake.
- Matthew Prior
Hope is grief's best music.
- Author Unknown
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
- Baruch Spinoza
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you're slamming the door in the face of God.
- Charles L. Allen
Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.
- George Weinberg
Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope.
- Author Unknown
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
- Tertullian
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
- Lin Yutang
Hope is the poor man's bread.
- Gary Herbert
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
- Victor Hugo
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
- Robert Ingersoll
